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NPR's lazy, creeping supply-and-demand denialism
NPR's disappointing segment on immigration and American workers over the weekend was marked by unsupported insinuations, red herrings and a creeping denial of the law of supply and demand.
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Harvard/Tufts Study Makes Unsubstantiated Claims About Immigration and U.S. Health Care Costs
How to provide health care and how to pay for it is a contentious political issue in the United States. Immigration adds another dimension to the debate, especially when it comes to using tax payer money to fund health care services for illegal aliens. A recent article in a health journal says not to worry, immigration, even illegal immigration, provides a net benefit to the health care system. We take a look at how the article's authors came to this conclusion.
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Immigration Won't Save Social Security, No Matter How Many Charts Vox Puts On Its Website
"Vox explains the news." Or so they say. Last week a Vox writer tried to explain how Baby Boomers are dependent upon immigrants to fund their Social Security. This is untrue. The Social Security system is in dire straits, but immigration is not going to save it. In fact, our current immigration system is putting strains on the system, and more immigration would only make matters worse.
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Media Roundup: 'Oversight of Immigration Enforcement and Family Unification Efforts'
The sure-fire way to learn what happened at yesterday's Senate Judiciary hearing about Trump's zero-tolerance policy is to read the testimonies and watch the hearing in full.
If you don't have 3-plus hours to kill, here are the takeaways from 5 news stories -- starting with the items you are least likely to have read about.
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Reps. Frelinghuysen & Yoder Undermine Pres. Trump's Immigration Enforcement Efforts During DHS Approps Markup
During yesterday's committee mark-up of the Homeland Security Appropriations bill, Reps. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-N.J.) and Kevin Yoder (R-Kan.) allowed for the passage of several amendments that would undermine the Trump Administration's immigration enforcement efforts and increase foreign-worker competition for vulnerable American workers.
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Western Growers Association Blocking E-Verify Bill
The Western Growers association is working to sabotage the effort to pass a House bill containing E-Verify, despite the fact that the rest of the agribusiness lobby has signed off on the bill. This Western Growers continues to try to defeat any serious attempt to end illegal immigration, and will only accept a permanent "solution" that amounts to indentured servitude for agricultural workers.
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For 9 months, I've asked fellow environmentalists why they don't address immigration as population issue
Here are representative comments of what I heard from my first 73 conversations.
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Calls to eliminate ICE get serious. Is disdain for nationhood behind it all?
This is a different kind of 4th of July holiday than we've had since at least the early '70s.
A growing number of Members of Congress -- and protesters in the streets -- are questioning the legitimacy of the United States of America remaining a true nation of self-determining people.
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Breaking Down House Votes on the Securing America's Future Act & the Goodlatte-Ryan-Denham Amnesty
The Securing America's Future Act, H.R. 4760, fell just 20 votes short of passing the House last week, setting a high-water mark for supporting an end to chain migration and mandatory E-Verify. Notably, more than 100 House Republicans voted against the Goodlatte-Ryan-Denham Amnesty, H.R. 6136, and in favor of H.R. 4760 -- a bill that NumbersUSA had supported since its introduction back in January.
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President Trump Fails to Acknowledge E-Verify As the Most Effective Deterrent of Illegal Immigration
The Trump Administration's "zero tolerance" policy for illegal border crossings will reduce illegal immigration. If Congress takes action, it can ensure that parents and children are kept together while they await the outcome of their cases. If the President wants to pursue a "zero tolerance" policy against criminal employers who knowingly hire unauthorized workers, he must support the inclusion of E-Verify as part of any necessary reform bill.